Dollar (motorcycle manufacturer)
Dollar is a former French motorcycle manufacturer that existed from 1925 to 1939. The company was based in Joinville-le-Pont . In the 1930s, the model range included three ohv -controlled engines of 250, 350 and 500 cm³ displacement from Chaise . A motorcycle with a V4 engine and a displacement of 748 cm³ was also offered in small numbers. In the beginning, motors from Moser and MAG are said to have been used, and later, in individual copies, by JAP .
The Dollar V4 with longitudinally installed air-cooled four-cylinder engine from Chaise with 748 cm³ displacement (bore / stroke: 62.6 × 60.8 mm) and 22 HP at 4000 rpm, offered in 1933, is one of the pioneers of modern engine construction (cylinder angle of only 14 °). Suppliers like Honda and Audi later adopted this concept.
Dollars (250 cc)
Dollar (500 cc)
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literature
- S. Ewald, G. Murrer: Encyclopedia of the motorcycle . Novara 1996. (German edition: Weltbild Verlag, 1999, ISBN 3-86047-142-2 )
- Thomas Krens, Matthew Drutt (Eds.): The Art of the Motorcycle. 2003, ISBN 0-8109-9106-3 .
- Erwin Tragatsch : The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Motorcycles. Chartwell Books, Secaucus 1986, ISBN 0-89009-868-9 .
- Hugo Wilson: The Lexicon of the Motorcycle. Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-613-01719-9 .
